SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 22

Welcome to our SAP Cloud ALM update series! Every two weeks, SAP delivers new improvements to the Cloud ALM, bringing users the latest features, performance boosts, and user interface enhancements. In this post, we’ll cover the most recent updates introduced this week. If you missed our article on the latest updates, you can read it here.

SAP Business Transformation Center

In recently introduced Cycle and Monitoring it is now possible to launch or restart the cycle prevalidation process using a single Run Prevalidation control in the cycle detail view, Cycle Prevalidation tab.

The results of the following prevalidation checks are available in the table:

Target tables exist
Target tables are empty
Already existing documents
Additional errors

In the Manage Transformation Models app, the new “Mass Edit” button allows the write behaviour of custom transformation objects to be edited.

Implementation

In the Implementation area, several applications feature a new status, “Successfully Tested,” which has been added for Requirements.

The “Successfully Tested” status is now included in:

The Overview app, specifically within the Assignments per Scope, Requirements, and Requirement Distribution cards.
Analytics, including the Requirement Distribution, Solution Process Traceability, Requirement Traceability, Feature Traceability, and User Story Traceability.
The Cross-Project Overview, extending to the Cross-Project Analysis and Process Hierarchy Assignment apps.

In Analytics, when selecting a Test Plan in the Test Execution Analysis app, the Time Frame is adjusted according to the start and end date of the Test Plan. When selecting more than one Test Plan, the filter takes the earliest start and latest end date.

Documents have optional field Scope available on the object page under the Additional Information tab.

In Libraries application it’s now possible to assign a system group to a library application to specify which systems are relevant for the application.

Test Preparation supports adding application links for activities based on olution process flow diagrams for manual test cases.

These application links allow testers to directly access the relevant application during the test execution.

Operations

Business Process Monitoring application has new KPIs available for SAP Service Cloud (SAP Cloud for Customer).

Open Tickets Overdue for Completion
Tickets Created
Ticket Creation to Completion

New KPIs can be found under the end-to-end process Lead to Cash, Contact to Service, Manage Customer Service. The KPIs are activated automatically if the setup steps have been completed for Managed Component.

In Integration & Exception Monitoring supports now monitoring messages for SAP Revenue Growth Optimization and SAP Task Center. Providing detailed status overview of the incoming and outgoing messages and possibility to drill down to single messages to check individual issues and message details.

Synthetic User Monitoring application introduced new annotation for Sensitive Steps.

Previously it was possible to indicate a Selenium action as sensitive using the annotation for Sensitive Action in Selenium scripts. For these actions, Synthetic User Monitoring does not capture screenshots, does not capture additional metrics, and does not log the action target and value of the Selenium command.

The difference is the scope of the new annotation, which covers all actions of the step.

Carolina Aksel

Carolina works as a Junior ALM Technology Expert and has knowledge of various Cloud ALM functions. She has specialized mainly in the area of Cloud ALM Operation and has become particularly familiar with the focus topics of Health Monitoring and Synthetic User Monitoring.